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Here until 7pm and stocked with new releases to keep you entertained through the seasonal changes!📖🍃

A huge thank you to everyone who stopped by on Saturday for the 2nd Annual !! One of our busiest and most successful days of the year. We wouldn’t be here without our loyal customer base. We hope you all joined our rewards program, and will be regulars at HHB moving forward. Your support is everything to us❤️

Another gorgeous day at HHB! Plenty of new and old books to keep you entertained, and as always if we don’t have it in stock we’ll happily special order it for you!

Happy Monday!! Check out these new releases before they sell out! We’ll be here until 7pm🤩📖

Our favorite view🤩 The perfect paperbacks for your next trip down the shore!

It’s the perfect season to try out a new recipe! Come check out our fully stocked cookbook selection, and discover your new favorite cuisine! 👩🏻‍🍳👨🏼‍🍳

It’s always a beautiful day to sit in our nook and read your new book! ☀️📖

Events coordinator Izzy has been laughing her way through “City of Laughter.” Stop by and pick up your next giggly read! 😁

School’s out! Keep your little ones entertained with our robust children’s and YA selection! 🤓📚

Looking for something new to read? Check out our new setup for July: “Debut Authors!”

Full shelves, AC blasting, come cool off at HHB!

Few things more satisfying than a brand new hardcover🤌🏼 What are you going to pick up today?!

Join us next thursday for cannolis and conversation with two fabulous authors! RSVP in our bio! Read more about the book below:

Come to Paris, August 2021, when the City of Lights was still empty of tourists and a thirst for long-overdue pleasure gripped those who wandered its streets.

After New York City emptied out in March 2020, Glynnis MacNicol, aged forty-six, unmarried with no children, spent sixteen months alone in her tiny Manhattan apartment. The isolation was punishing. A year without touch. Women are warned of invisibility as they age, but this was an extreme loneliness no one can prepare you for. When the opportunity to sublet a friend’s apartment in Paris arose, MacNicol jumped on it. Leaving felt less like a risk than a necessity. What follows is a decadent, joyful, unexpected journey into one woman’s pursuit of radical enjoyment. The weeks in Paris are filled with friendship and food and s*x. There is dancing on the Seine; a plethora of gooey cheese; midnight bike rides through empty Paris; handsome men; afternoons wandering through the empty Louvre; nighttime swimming in the ocean off a French island. And yes, plenty of nudity.

In the spirit of Nora Ephron and Deborah Levy (think Colette . . . if she’d had access to dating apps), I’m Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself is an intimate, insightful, powerful, and endlessly pleasurable memoir of an intensely lived experience whose meaning and insight expand far beyond the personal narrative. MacNicol is determined to document the beauty, excess, and triumph of a life that does not require permission. The pursuit of enjoyment is a political act, both a right and a responsibility. Enjoying yourself—as you are—is not something the world tells you is possible, but it is.

Here’s the proof.

Join us tonight with Lilly Dancyger at 6:30! Read more about the book below:

Lilly Dancyger always thought of her closest friendships as great loves, complex and profound as any romance. When her beloved cousin was murdered just as both girls were entering adulthood, Dancyger’s devotion to the women in her life took on a new urgency—a desire to hold her friends close while she still could. In First Love, this urgency runs through a striking exploration of the bonds between women, from the intensity of adolescent best friendship and fluid s*xuality to mothering and chosen family.

Each essay in this incisive collectionis grounded in a close female friendship in Dancyger’s life, reaching outward to dissect cultural assumptions about identity and desire, and the many ways women create space for each other in a world that wants us small. Seamlessly weaving personal experience with literature and pop culture—ranging from fairy tales to true crime, from Anaïs Nin and Sylvia Plath to Heavenly Creatures and the “sad girls” of Tumblr—Dancyger’s essays form a kaleidoscopic story of a life told through friendships, and an expansive interrogation of what it means to love each other.

Though friendship will never be enough to keep us safe from the dangers of the world, Dancyger reminds us that love is always worth the risk, and that when tragedy strikes, it’s our friends who will help us survive. In First Love, these essential bonds get their due.

Less than a week until Father’s Day! Stop by to pick up something special. We’ve got a great selection of cards, books, and trinkets. Get your special orders ASAP so they can arrive on time. Open today from 10-7!

Totes + hardcover books + fun cards for graduations and Father’s day = a fully stocked HHB🤩 Open from 10-6 today, and 10-7 all week!

New hardcover releases in stock! Some signed copies as well! Open 10-7 today! We hope you all enjoyed the holiday weekend, and got some good reading in☀️🌊📖

Join us tomorrow at 6:30pm! Be sure to RSVP in our bio, and read more about the book below:

Elvera “Peps” Neuman got lost in the sounds and rhythms of basketball, dribbling and shooting on a hoop affixed to her family’s barn in Eden Valley, Minnesota. In the years preceding Title IX, Neuman’s dreams of playing the game professionally meant a life away from home on barnstorming tours and even forming a team of her own, the Arkansas Gems. Sixty years later, she got to witness what a sold-out Target Center in downtown Minneapolis looked like on the Friday night of the 2022 Women’s Final Four. Neuman’s cheers joined with a crowd of 18,268 to send a wall of sound toward the Twin Cities’ own Paige Bueckers and her Connecticut teammates. The 5’11 Bueckers may have worn her ponytail a little differently than Neuman, but Neuman certainly saw something of herself in the young superstar.

This is the story of the pioneers who shaped so much of the modern infrastructure for women’s basketball, whose histories intersect and wind their way through the state of Minnesota. It is the story of forcing open doors—to ensure teams even existed, to allow those teams to play in conditions resembling those men could take for granted, to ensure that the color of your skin or who you love would not be a barrier to building a life centered around basketball. To end the double-standard that treats every undeniable success by women as a one-off, but every setback as a referendum. Four generations of women have played essential and diverse roles: Neuman and her friend and collaborator of a half-century, Vicky Nelson; Cheryl Reeve and her wife, Carley Knox; Lindsay Whalen, Maya Moore, Seimone Augustus, Sylvia Fowles, and WNBA’s Minnesota Lynx; right through to the future of the game in Bueckers and the stars of tomorrow.

Through meticulous research and evocative storytelling, this captivating narrative gives due recognition to the luminaries who ushered in women’s basketball’s modern era.

Your floofy friends are always welcome at HHB (as long as they’re leashed)!! There’s a book for every human and pet alike. Be sure to ask for a T-R-E-A-T at the counter. 🐶🐾

Join us for a story hour this Saturday at 12! Be sure to RSVP on our website at headhousebooks.com/events. Read more about the book below:

Enjoy this witty, heartwarming exploration of father-son relationships and growing up male in today’s culture through the lens of a boy yearning to forge his own identity. Chuck Whipplethorp has a lot to live up to. He is Charles Whipplethorp the Fifth after all, named after his seriously cool ancestors who were explorers, soldiers, and scientists—his grandpa even discovered a new species of insect! One day Chuck looks at his stay-at-home dad, huddled over his laptop, and asks: “Dad . . . when I grow up, am I going to be as boring as you?” With a little help from his nurturing father, Chuck finds his own source of strength and individuality through creativity, and helps him to discover that “greatness” comes in many forms. The Great Whipplethorp Bug Collection offers a multigenerational family portrait with humor and heart, while unpacking gender roles and acknowledging the universal desire young readers feel to belong and make a mark in the world.

Come check out our collection of signed books!! Here until 7 all week🌞📖

Make HHB your one stop shop for Mother’s Day Gifts!! We have books, cards, and other trinkets. We’re open until 7pm, and open 10-6 on Sunday for you last minute gift buyers!